Cash Insight: a Tale of Augmented Collections
Insight Enterprises is a Fortune 500 global IT solutions integrator. With its finance function managing around 10,000 invoices per day on the back of nearly $10bn in revenues, Lynn Willden, Senior Vice President Finance, Treasury and Tax, Insight Enterprises, knew the business needed help to secure and accelerate its cash flows, and support for its […]
Technology’s Co-Starring Role in Supply Chain Transformation
In the final article of this three-part series taking a working capital perspective on some of the foremost issues of the day, experts from SAP-owned fintech, Taulia – Blake Evans, Head of Sales for Americas, Alexander Mutter, Managing Director EMEA, and Steve Scott, Head of Sales APAC – explore how companies can best use technology […]
Treasury and Procurement – Closer Than Ever?
Interactions between treasury and procurement spiked during the Covid-19 pandemic, as both departments dealt with the emergency that global lockdowns triggered for corporate supply chains. As we move into the next stage of managing the crisis, strengthening engagement between the two departments offers efficiency opportunities for team members and the wider organisation. While they tend […]
Creating Emerging Market Supply Chain Opportunities
Even robust mid-market firms in emerging markets can experience difficulties in securing sufficient finance to grow. It can mean larger established-market buyers and suppliers are needlessly losing opportunities to work with these firms. TMI discovers how one fintech is seeking to bridge the funding gap. Supply chains are often a complex global arrangement, with participants […]
Corporate Innovators
The Best and the Brightest of 2021 2021 was arguably one of the most innovative years on record in the world of corporate treasury, based on the standard of entries to the TMI Corporate Recognition Awards. Here, we present a brief overview of the winning projects – which cannot possibly do justice to the magnitude […]
Managing the Impact of Rising Interest Rates and Inflation
With interest rates rising as central banks try to contain inflation, a difficult balancing act is in progress. The responses of the various monetary policy committees are being watched with a keen eye by treasurers the world over as they consider their next actions. Tarek El-Yafi, Regional Head of Cash Management Sales, and Karen Hom, […]
Cereal Winner
Kellogg Company partners with Cashforce to create a smart forecasting solution offering new working capital insights and KPIs By pairing Cashforce’s Working Capital Insights solution with a newly introduced company-wide data-driven mindset, Kellogg Company has made significant improvements to its forecasting processes, tightened its working capital cycles, and realised huge savings. It’s a project for […]
Giving Cash Processing a Real-time Boost
Jabil’s global AP structure streamlined with Serrala FS2. Serrala Alevate CashApp is delivering next-level AR processing For US-based high-tech manufacturer Jabil, AP was spread globally across three shared services centres. With manual processing and no standardisation, it was time for cash processing to get a technology boost. Serrala delivered in a project that TMI is […]
Trade Assets: A New Way of Managing Short-term Liquidity
Does it make sense for treasurers to develop an investment strategy that incorporates short-term payables and receivables from the global supply chain? Guy Brooks, Head of Distribution for Working Capital Finance, Pemberton, certainly thinks so. He explains the treasury opportunities to TMI. The short-term payables and receivables of large- and mid-market US and European corporates […]
Scale for Growth: Data as the Cornerstone of Finance Transformation
When a company grows through a merger or acquisition, the finance team can be faced with various legacy systems and conflicting procedures. Kim Estes, Vice President, Accounting, The Knot Worldwide, spoke during a recent TMI and Coupa webinar about how her organisation overcame these challenges and found the perfect marriage of technological transformation and streamlined […]
APIs for Payments and More: Practical Insights
TMI’s Eleanor Hill is joined by Daniela Eder and Maarten van Rossum (Barclays) to discuss how the connectivity ecosystem is evolving, and what corporate treasurers can expect to see emerge from this space in 2022. Our guests take a detailed look into the key technology underpinning this development, APIs, and consider their concrete use cases […]
Brighter Skies Ahead: Treasury Best Practice in a Post-Covid Environment
Treasury best practices have been both forged and accelerated during the pandemic. A recent TMI webinar explored the key themes of the latest Journeys to Treasury report, reflecting on the changing nature of treasury, the digitisation of the function, and how the ecosystem of treasurers, banks and service providers can best work together. The Journeys […]
BNP Paribas Connects Webasto Korea to the Global Family
When Germany-headquartered international automotive supplier Webasto Group decided to acquire its long-standing Korean joint venture partner Donghee, some major changes were needed within the local finance function. International banking partner BNP Paribas helped deliver a globally standardised, efficient, and secure cash management operation. Sometimes in business it makes perfect sense to bring a close partner […]
Verizon Fostering Final Farewell to Cheques in the US
When BNY Mellon announced that Verizon had become the first corporate client to introduce the Real-Time E-Bills and Payments functionality, it marked a breakthrough for retail clients. TMI asked the bank how this solution could impact the treasury space. The US retail payments space has long relied upon paper cheques and the country’s ACH (automated […]
Reassessing Financial Maturity Post-Pandemic
With the successful vaccine roll-out and the lifting of Covid-19 restrictions in many parts of the world, it feels like we are finally moving beyond the pandemic and returning to (something like) normal. However, most business leaders recognise that major disruptions will strike again. Today’s finance and treasury teams are faced with ensuring their business’s […]
A Tale of Two Treasuries
A Guide to Successful M&As Mergers and acquisitions are never guaranteed success at any stage of the process. For their part, treasurers will typically face the practicalities of integration and transition, this bringing its own set of challenges. What can be done to avoid the common pitfalls and help optimise immediate and future outcomes? As […]